Facebook’s newest proposed governing documents — its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy — are now in the hands in of the nearly 1 billion-member Facebook public who use the social network.
Today, Facebook announced that its …
Deal or not, plenty of Groupon insiders are opting to unload shares in their first opportunity since the company’s public debut, and they’re helping to send Groupon’s share price tumbling to new lows Friday.
Groupon, which debuted on the NASDAQ …
The socially-augmented, Facebook-laden version of Bing’s search engine is now live for all in the U.S., Microsoft announced today.
The new social Bing, first revealed in early May, features a three column design with search results on the left, a …
Fighting AIDS through Foursquare check-ins and lattes, non-profit (RED), Starbucks, and the location-based startup have partnered up for a 10-day fundraising and AIDS awareness campaign.
From June 1 to 10, Starbucks will donate $1 to the Global Fund, the recipient …
Google Shopping, a revamp of Google’s Product Search, promises online consumers a digital shopping trip with a little more convenience and context, but introduces commercial bias into the experience.
Google announced today that it would be trading out its former …
It’s a new generation — of young 20-somethings who tweet from their smartphones.
From May 2011 to February 2012, the overall percentage of online adults who use Twitter barely moved the needle, growing by a measly 2 percent to 15 …
A billion dollars will buy you a lot of things, and, in the case of Instagram, one of those things happens to be exposure to millions.
In April, Instagram’s website saw a 78 percent uptick in unique visitors in the …
Leave it to Facebook to invent yet another way to keep us all glued to the site. The social network has made the status update stickier with the addition of embedded games that people can play as they skim the …
Facebook may be looking to buy browser maker Opera Software, according to a new report.
A source told Pocket-lint that the social network wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire Opera to do so. VentureBeat …
Could Facebook improve the experience of its web and mobile applications? Most certainly, and now they’ll have the usability, user experience, and interaction design expertise of Bolt Peters to do just that.
The social network picked up some of the …
Trying to prove that its not dead yet, Yahoo owned-Flickr is releasing yet another batch of updates, but this time with the emphasis on improving its Groups.
Thursday, Groups on Flickr, the site’s community-shared photo pools, have been gifted with …
Add the House and the Senate to the growing list of parties with serious questions and concerns about how Facebook, its underwriters, and the NASDAQ handled the most anticipated initial public offering in recent history.
Both the Senate Banking Committee …
The bungled handling of Facebook’s initial public offering by NASDAQ may have left the door open for a rival suitor to win over the newest technology company on the market.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is using Facebook’s NASDAQ …
In the convoluted case of the botched Facebook IPO, the story goes that the social network’s underwriters, with guidance from a Facebook executive, reduced their 2012 earnings estimates, shared that material information with a few, preferred investors, and let institutional …
Startup Qwiki wants to change the way we experience information, and today it’s releasing a news reporting tool that brings its technology to publishers.
Qwiki Creator, launched today in partnership with ABC News, merges web video and content for interactive …
Facebook Timeline, the company’s most recent take on the profile page that attempts to capture and highlight a person’s significant life events, is having a life-altering moment of its own.
The social network is testing a tweaked Timeline design, first …
Buying its way into social commerce, Facebook has acquired mobile gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum.
“We’re thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook. The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full force,” …
It’s official: Facebook is a public company.
With all the hype around Facebook’s big day and the obsession with who’s-getting-rich numbers, its easy to forget to that we’ve had a front row view of Facebook’s ascendance to $38 a share, …
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“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.”
Trite though the line may be, Facebook, valued at $104 billion, is in the process of minting …
Facebook is looking mighty fine today — especially if you’re Instagram, the photo-sharing company that sold its hit mobile application to the social network one month ago for a cool $1 billion in cash and stock.
But wait. Did we …
